Oil Ministry Invests $15m to Expand Tehran Metro Network

Iran’s Oil Ministry has invested $15 million in Tehran Metro to help expand the capital’s public transportation network, the oil minister wrote on Twitter.
Bijan Namdar Zanganeh wrote that the money would be used to add trains to the network. 
Following the Covid-19 pandemic, local authorities had cautioned that social distancing would not be possible on crowded Tehran subway trains.
Zanganeh noted that the money has been supplied from revenue generated from fuel price rationing scheme that was introduced in November 2019.